On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:12:13PM -0400, BenDJ wrote:

> I've an nginx + varnish + apache2 stack. Nginz server as redirector, ssl handshake, and gzip compression. Varnish serves as a reverse-proxy, and apache 'just' hosts apps & serves content.
>
> I'm trying to get gzip compression behaving properly. I'm getting intermittent results -- some content seems to be gzipped, some not.
>
> I'm looking for some help figuring out WHERE the problem lies, and what to do to fix it.
>
> In nginx conf, I've,
>
> [code]
> ...
> http {
> ...
> gzip on;
> gzip_http_version 1.0;
> gzip_comp_level 9;
> gzip_proxied any;
> gzip_buffers 16 8k;
> gzip_min_length 0;
> gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript application/x-javascript;
> gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)";
> gzip_vary on;

BTW, in 0.7.12+ you may use
gzip_disable msie6;
instead of
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)";
It's faster.

Also, "gzip_comp_level 1" is enough. 9th level simply eats more CPU, but
do not produce proportional cmpression ratio. Say, 1 decreases file 2 times
while 9 - only 2.5, but not 5 times.


--
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/

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